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Lion Predation

United States Pckts Offline
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This looks like a huge Bachelor herd of Capes, this would be the most dangerous prey a lion could face.
I'm not talking on an individual basis but as a collective unit.

This is also characteristic of Cape Buffalo, they are scared easily and run off but they never run far, they also go about 10-25 meters or so then stop, turn around and tell you "this is as far as I go, any closer and I charge!'
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( This post was last modified: 08-06-2019, 09:29 PM by Shadow )

(08-06-2019, 08:52 PM)Pckts Wrote: This looks like a huge Bachelor herd of Capes, this would be the most dangerous prey a lion could face.
I'm not talking on an individual basis but as a collective unit.

This is also characteristic of Cape Buffalo, they are scared easily and run off but they never run far, they also go about 10-25 meters or so then stop, turn around and tell you "this is as far as I go, any closer and I charge!'

Agreed, hunting cape buffalo´s isn´t easy and experience is needed. This video shows in practice what you say.




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Older incident, but still quite interesting to see. This lioness seems to know, what she is doing. The way it "wrestles" that buffalo to fall down using horn as lever is impressive. Coincidence or learned skill, that would be so interesting to know.




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Lions versus buffalos: a permanent, preliminary test. When the preys are huge, they are tested before the predators are really going into action.

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Kigali the lioness at Leipzig Zoo, Germany, ate her own cubs, 3 days after giving birth to them! https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/08/europ...index.html

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(05-18-2014, 02:40 AM)TheLioness Wrote: "A lone male lion jumped on the back of a mature male giraffe, devoured the tendons and was dragged on for over 500 meters before finally succeeding in bringing it down. This was an act that surprised us all and we were left speechless at how a lone lion could perform this amazing feat!"

 


You can find the pictures on the internet archive.




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"A lone male lion jumped on the back of a mature male giraffe, devoured the tendons and was dragged on for over 500 meters before finally succeeding in bringing it down. This was an act that surprised us all and we were left speechless at how a lone lion could perform this amazing feat!

We set off on a mission to find out which lion it was.  Judging by the size of the tracks found by the giraffe carcass, we knew it was a large male. Amongst us, opinions on the lion’s identity was divided between Ndelie and Manengop . We arrived at the site of the kill a few minutes after seven in the evening, and there he was. It was Manengop!

How on earth can a lone sub-adult male bring down a mature male giraffe? He was guarding his kill from marauding hyaenas and had a bulging stomach. He had eaten till he was full and other scavengers were biding their time, waiting for him to leave his meal."


https://web.archive.org/web/201509200703...a-giraffe/
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( This post was last modified: 08-15-2019, 12:08 AM by Styx38 )

Here is another case of a Lion killing a Bull Giraffe. It is also archived.


Miles (Xpl-16) the Male Lion



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The Bull Giraffe that he killed:



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"I decided to fit this collar to an adult male lion, named Miles (Xpl-16) that lives in the Ugab River. It was a daunting task because he moves over an enormous area of 16,000 sqr km, and the last time I darted him on 24 June 2007 he attacked my vehicle and shredded three tires (see News 2007). After searching the area for four days I finally tracked him down in the lower Ugab River, where he had killed a giraffe bull."


https://web.archive.org/web/20081212195202/http://www.desertlion.info/news08a.html
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Lioness catches baby baboon.. See it after 4:00




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Nice one.




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( This post was last modified: 08-22-2019, 02:02 PM by Shadow )

Excuse me mister, we have still unfinished business..... 


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This girl seems to be quite determined Wink
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Sometimes priorities are just so different.... still I think, that this buffalo wasn´t as entertained as people.... about 2:30 is that moment which makes is clear what was main priority of this male lion Wink




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Hot situation, alone against all.

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A pride of lions eating a zebra, nothing extraordinary... Except that the zebra is still alive, "feeling its tissue to be riped apart and away from its body", and makes it known by trying to bite the male lion. The lioness intervenes to put it out of its mysery.

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The hunter becoming the hunted...

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Despite a massive disapproval of the whole pride of hyenas, a male lion comes to take the leftovers of a meal... Masai Mara, Kenya

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